MythZoneMinder

MythZoneMinder is a plugin to interface to some of the features of ZoneMinder. You can use it to view a status window similar to
the console window in ZM. Also there are screens to view live camera shots and
replay recorded events. Other features may be added at a later time if there is
sufficient interest.

ZoneMinder is a Linux video camera security and surveillance solution

Limitation of the Current Version

The plugin uses OpenGL to render the video frames so you must have a working OpenGL setup.

Dependencies

You must already have a working ZoneMinder installation accessible somewhere on your network. The plugin has been
tested with version 1.22.2 and 1.22.3.

Install MythZoneMinder

The plugin doesn't require any additional dependencies to compile. As with all the plugins you should have compiled and installed MythTV before trying to compile it.

PLEASE NOTE: This plugin requires MythTV svn r12143 or later from trunk and will NOT work with the fixes branch.

The source code is part of the mythplugins repository and all that is needed to install it is to grab the latest mythplugins source from svn trunk and run configure with

--enable-zoneminder

added as a parameter when running the configure script. The default configuration will compile to work with version 1.22.2 of ZoneMinder. If you use version 1.22.3 then add

--zm-version=1.22.3

Then compile and install the plugins in the normal way.

Running The plugin

The first thing you should do is go to MythZoneMinder's settings page and make sure
the settings there are correct for your system. Currently the only settings are for the IP address and port that the plugin should use to connect to the mythzmserver.

The various screens are described below

The Console Screen

The Console Screen

The console screen shows you if the main ZM daemon is running, the current date/time, what the cpu load is and what percentage of the drive used to store events has been used. Below that is a list of monitors/cameras, their current status and a count of how many events are stored for each monitor.

Keys:-

UP/DOWN - moves the selected item in the list up down.

ESCAPE - exit back to the menu.

The Live View Screen

Live View - 1 camera

Live View - 2 cameras

Live View - 4 camera

The live screen shows live views from any available monitor. Currently there are views to show 1, 2 or 4 monitors simultaneously. Above each monitor view is the
camera name and the current status eg idle, alert or alarm.

Keys:-

INFO - switches from 1,2 or 4 camera views.

1 - cycles though each available monitor to be shown on the first view

2,3,4 - ditto for the second, third, and forth views if the current screen layout has one

ESCAPE - return to the menu.

The Events Screen

Events Screen

The event screen shows a list of all stored events. You can filter the list to show events from just one monitor or all monitors. Events can be played of deleted as required.

Keys:-

UP/DOWN - Move focus to the next/previous widget. When the camera list has focus they change the selected item in the list.

LEFT/RIGHT - Move focus to the next/previous widget. When the camera 'selector' widget has focus they change the selected item.

ESCAPE - return to the menu

The Event Player Screen

Event Player Screen

The event screen plays recorded events.

UP/DOWN - Move focus to the next/previous widget.

LEFT/RIGHT - When paused moves the the previous/next frame in the event.

PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN - Move to the previous/next event.

PAUSE - Toggles play pause on/off

DELETE - Delete the current event and move to the next one in the list